Saturday, October 11, 2008

glass project #3


I got my 3D tile back, and I love it! I can see the imperfections of my 1st try, but other than that, I think it turned out pretty good!
It's called kiln carved glass. It's made with 2 firings. The first is the fusing of 2 sheets of glass, ~ 6" each.
The 2nd step is cutting out a design using 2 sheets of fibre paper. The bottom sheet has the oval shapes, and the top sheet has the triangle shapes. The fused glass goes on top of these 2 sheets in the kiln, and as the glass melts, it "falls" through the holes cut out in the design to give a layered tile.

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